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08-16-2007, 12:35 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wisconsin
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ID Algae please
I've looked at several sites trying to put a name to this but haven't located any thing that looks exactly the same. Does anyone know what this algae is called?
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08-16-2007, 12:55 PM
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Keeper of the Reef
Join Date: Mar 2007
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I beleive it's a Rhodophyta (red macro algea) Most of the ones I've seen are much darker almost purple/brown.
It's pretty  It has the color of a Carnation Coral.
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08-16-2007, 01:04 PM
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Eat more PIE
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Tangs will love that stuff.
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08-19-2007, 12:19 AM
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Older Than the Cretaceous
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08-19-2007, 12:26 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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no no no, thats Red Kelp ! there are several types of red kelp also, i belive thats ''Grape Vine kelp'' at least thats what my LFS called it..lol but im 99.9 % sure its red kelp  tangs WILL eat that, there fav food !
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08-19-2007, 12:27 AM
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Halymenia floresia
may be its scientific name tho. lol
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08-19-2007, 12:55 AM
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Older Than the Cretaceous
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Sorry that is not red kelp. Kelp growns nothing like that and kelp its brown algae, Phaeophyta. I don't care what the LFS calls it. It is Halymenia sp or a ever so slight chanced it is Grateloupia ...gibbersaii sp. And grape vine Kelp is not kelp but Botryocladia sp. a Rhodophyta. It is called grapes becasue it looks like a bunch of red grapes. There is also Red Smooth Leaf Kelp, also not a Kelp. All Kelps are Laminaria s. There is no such thing as red kelp.
Red Grape Kelp
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08-19-2007, 01:09 AM
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well do i sound stupid ! lol ! thanks for the correction !
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